We apologize for the inconvenience: to prevent possible abuse of our service, your ability to connect to Startpage has been suspended at this time.
This happens when a large number of search requests are received from a particular internet connection during a short period of time. Screen scraping software may trigger this, as would a connection shared by many people at the same time, for example a VPN server or through Tor. Often, this can be resolved by connecting through a different server through your VPN provider or by connecting through a different Tor exit node.
We are constantly subjected to scraping and other forms of abuse, so measures like these are essential in order to maintain the best possible service for our users.
If you believe you have received this message in error, please consider helping us fine tune our anti-abuse systems by providing the following information:
- Are you using a VPN, Tor, or other anonymous proxies?
- Are you using a company or other shared network?
- Are you using a user-agent switcher?
- Do you have special browser configurations or extensions?
- Do you use dynamic IP addresses?
We are always seeking to refine and correct this whenever possible. Thank you for your patience.